Rescuers pulled a man alive from the rubble on Saturday 11 days after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, raising hopes of finding more survivors even after the government called off search efforts. Wismond Exantus, 25, (foto) said he survived his ordeal in the ruins of the grocer’s shop where he worked by drinking Coca-Cola and eating snacks, [...]

Thousands of Orthodox Christians braved rain on the banks of the Jordan river on Monday to plunge into plastic tubs filled with its murky water to celebrate Jesus’s baptism. Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III led a ceremony attended by the faithful from several eastern denominations on the river marking the heavily guarded West [...]

Somali pirates freed the Greek supertanker Maran Centaurus yesterday after a plane dropped a record ransom — estimated at US$7-million in cash–on its deck. The release was delayed after fighting broke out among the pirate gangs on land over sharing of the loot. Residents of Harardhere, a pirate lair on the Somalia coast, said there [...]

A special direct flight carrying a group of volunteer doctors and rescuers and a dispatch of medicines and pharmaceutical material is poised to leave for Haiti on Tuesday morning, provided the conditions in the earthquake-devastated country allow it, Greece’s foreign ministry announced, adding that the Boeing 747 is equipped to bring up to 400 European [...]

More than 2.000 thousand prominent personalities from 69 countries – including many university professors, writers, artists, local authorities, ambassadors of Hellenism, etc – have signed an open letter from the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis, aiming towards saving and promoting the works of the late, great Greek writer, which have been “tragically neglected [...]